Meow.

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by ch3shyr3_cat in Love of Animals

That's cat speak for hello!! Um.. I'm Ashley.. I was invited to this group by Meenakshi! I am an avid animal lover.. all animals are amazing in their own right but.... I'm a cat person..... More »

Re: champions of animals and animal rights

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Suni in Love of Animals

hi! welcome to the group! it's a pleasure to have you here! never heard of your group, but now i have, which is great! learn something new everyday. now i have another team to root... More »

Re: champions of animals and animal rights

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Meenakshi in Love of Animals

How delightful to see you as a member of Gaia--now what shall we call you in a personal way? exploreTeam seems so impersonal! I get your emailed newsletter regularly and enjoy many of the short... More »

champions of animals and animal rights

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by exploreTeam in Love of Animals

Hi all - we are explore.org, a project of the Annenberg Foundation, and one of the causes we support and champion involve protecting animals and treating them with care. These can range from the Bengal... More »

Re: Novel

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by oneitalianflower in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Azyh, thank you for the clarification. I think it is incredible that your character taught you so much that you were able to share it with others! I understand what you mean now. What did... More »

Robert Lanza's Biocentrism

Posted on Jul 3rd, 2009 by Balder in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Has anyone come across this, either the new book or the recent article in Discover (below)? ~*~ The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself Stem-cell guru Robert Lanza presents a... More »

Freefall 2009, day 2

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by Sandra in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Todays writing... The wind is blowing. The wind is speaking, a gentle hush, and it is raining. ‘What is it in me that cannot take in rain and nourishment?’ the woman asks of herself. She... More »

Re: SWINE FLU - Assassination attempt on President Obama ???

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Lou in Gaia Lounge

There is an ANIMAL in ALL OF US... ... whether you are a GAIAn or a VEGAN... ...and it has great instincts! Go ahead...  ... trust your  ANIMAL INSTINCT. The ANIMAL inside of us knows how fast... More »

Re: Moon Mood Alert

Posted on May 10th, 2009 by ,,,, in Now I Can See the Moon

Yesterday's moon was also a wishing moon; There are 8 wishing moons in a calendar year . It is a good time to be making lists of wishes, hopes, and aspirations, which over time will... More »

Re: Carbon dioxide and its greenhouse effect

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by ~KES in Universal Science Forum

OPINION - The Global Warming Controversy I’ve been hearing a lot recently about the global warming controversy - various scientists accusing others of being paid shills, various scenarios that might or might not be true,... More »

...Declaraion of Human Sovereignty...

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Will

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Who around you do you consider wise?

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by ange

There is much wisdom in the universe...some wisdom comes from the most unlikely sources.. I could only hope to always be blessed by the ever present wonder of witnessing its miracles..in healing...service...guidance..inspiring renewal..joyful creation and... More »

Sunday's visitors

Posted on Aug 9th, 2009 by waterheart

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The Spell of the Sensuous: Interview with David Abram

Posted on Jun 28th, 2009 by le soleil

We have a great mix of discussion participants , which you can glean from comments posted here .  Let's begin! - ~ - Thank you to  Albert and  Balder , who shared the  Interview with David... More »

Gnostic Consciousness: Knowing With Spiritual Beings

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by buddhacious

Introduction Despite my resolute sense of the sacred nature of earthly existence, religious belief has yet to strike me as a particularly appropriate form of response to the presence of the holy. Belief is to... More »

Not This Not That - The Monster In The Closet

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by G

When I was boy I was convinced there were monsters in my closet. Didn’t matter that they were not there when the lights were on or that Mom and Dad assured me that there were... More »

Wolverine Analysis

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by Sky High

This is a revealing movie poster. Wolverine played by Hugh Jackman strains to look up towards his highest Chakra while struggling to break free from the biological bonds pulling him back down towards the violence... More »

What choice would you like to make?

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by tinkonthebrink

I'll have the strawberries, and some sliced bananas.  I want the funny brown pottery cup this morning. These red sandals made from recycled plastic are officially the cutest shoes in the world. Where did I... More »

The Deep Magic of Spring

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Marky Mark

The Deep Magic of Spring by Serge J Grandbois A long time ago, in another place another people also called their home, there had been many stories and legends. Especially about wonderful Beings called the... More »

Memories of my father... (2010)

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Nicola

May again and inevitably I think about my father more and more.  His birthday is in a couple of weeks and Father’s day is right around the corner.   He died 17 years ago May 1st. ... More »

Compared with that of Taoists and Far Eastern Buddhists, the Christian attitude toward Nature has been curiously insensitive and often downright domineering and violent. Taking their cue from an unfortunate remark in Genesis, Catholic moralists have regarded animals as mere things which men do right to regard for their own ends. . . .

Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . . . if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own I would refuse. . . . I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being's right to exist.

If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? Nothing can make self-immolation proper. Nothing can give them the right to turn men into sacrificial animals. Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!

"But," you might say, "none of this shakes my belief that 2 and 2 are 4." You are quite right, except in marginal cases - and it is only in marginal cases that you are doubtful whether a certain animal is a dog or a certain length is less than a meter. Two must be two of something, and the proposition "2 and 2 are 4" is useless unless it can be applied. Two dogs and two dogs are certainly four dogs, but cases arise in which you are doubtful whether two of them are dogs. "Well, at any rate there are four animals," you may say. But there are microorganisms concerning which it is doubtful whether they are animals or plants. "Well, then living organisms," you say. But there are things of which it is doubtful whether they are living organisms or not. You will be driven into saying: "Two entities and two entities are four entities." When you have told me what you mean by "entity," we will resume the argument.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfill our minimum obligations not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals. I know I would not have the right to kill you, however painlessly, just because I liked your flavour, and I am not in a position to judge that your life is worth more to you than the animal's to it.

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilisation until man realises that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

Killing an animal to make a coat is a sin. It wasn't meant to be and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful!

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

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